sleep in the dark of the moon
Poem #17 from: A Lizard Life Back to A Lizard Life - Introduction he climbed up on the star-way stair up until he reached the moon licked both lips with his broad blue tongue and he ate her right out...
View Articlegravel and shell
I believe I will die a bent and wizened shape in a contorted body frame it is because of gravel gravel and shell when I was a young boy the gravel at the roadside from the...
View Articlesmiling home
Poem #18 from: A Lizard Life Back to A Lizard Life - Introduction the smile of the lizard is a trick of the light for the face of a lizard is stone as the day hurries past between shadow and bright...
View Articlelate shift and the lonely bull
do you remember 'the lonely bull' a slow brassy number done by some ensemble from mexico they were popular for awhile I don't ... remember that is not really but these half dozen trumpet notes are...
View Articlereflection
Poem #19 from: A Lizard Life Back to A Lizard Life - Introduction the progress is slow even for this cautious one he approaches stops bobs his head low peers forward wary looks to each side behind...
View Articleoutline of today
no hunt today for exotica no creatures on the run there’s only oak trees waving while they wait for Spring socks on the line jiggle in the breeze underwear oh my oh my around they go on the rotary...
View Articlepicture window
the over-sized glass is noticeableeye-catching in its own righttaller than a man standingalmost as wide as the roomboundaries marked by the thickfull-height timber of adjoining sashesone each side of...
View Articlebreakfast dance
Poem #20 from: A Lizard Life Back to A Lizard Life - Introduction taking my lizard for a walk on a lead doffing our hats to each person we see into a café where I hold the door for my lizard who enters...
View Articleharmony (minor)
if we harmonise a minor chord we can make the wind blow-woe-woe ooo ooo I feel the thrum of you deep inside me a vibration ooo-ooo woe-woe-woe-woe o-ohhhhh-ohhhh o-ohhh-ohh I watch you change the shape...
View Articlethe loquat flower:the frost:the winter
the loquat tree is flowering white on the first frost day of Autumn I object to this fact on principle I object to the chill so soon after a poor excuse for Summer with hardly any real heat and barely...
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